" a top (Obama)Administration priority will be to significantly cut Social Security benefits while raising the retirement age."

" six reasons to remain worried: (paraphrased)
1. The President is comfortable with breaking platform commitments and betraying supporters.
2. Wall Street is interested in full or partial privatization of Social Security.
3.The President's fails to answer Senator Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) call for a statement that Social Security will not be cut during his second term.
4. A partial privatization of Social Security was a priority of former President Bill Clinton's second term.
5. The deal was negotiated by then White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles of the Bowles-Simpson Deficit Commission appointed by President Obama to devise "non-partisan" (Washington verbiage for "right wing") ways to reduce the federal deficit that called for "entitlement reform". This report, and its call for Social Security cuts, was at the foundation of a failed "compromise" proposed by the President during the "debt ceiling" negotiations of 2011. And now, Mr. Bowles slated as a frontrunner to be Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner's successor during the second term."

" when presented with a choice between the needs of the American public and the interests of Wall Street, the President has a clear record."

Posted by: qofdisks | Sep 26, 2012 2:38:31 PM

The people of NM have been heard by the state engineer. It does matter when New Mexicans come together to stop the unsustainable exploitation of our water resources. Occupy the water.

"Augustin Plains Ranch owners are asking for the right to pull 54 thousand acre-feet per year of water out of the ground. The State Engineer, in February, refused to consider their application."
"The application filed by the ranch is for 37 wells in Catron County and affects water use in seven counties from municipal uses in Santa Fe and commercial use in Rio Rancho and many others."
"Frederick said the (rejected)application covers all possible uses of water and encompasses an area twice the size of New Jersey. When the judge gave him a hard time about using an East Coast example, Fredrick called it 1/4 to 1/3 of New Mexico."